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"I'm living but I'm feeling numb.
Can see it in my stare.
I wear a mask so falsely numb and I don't know who I am."
Beautiful Bizarre" at DaphneArts Gallery. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tabula%20rasa/32/176/3202
It's tarantula mating season and Mount Diablo State Park is NorCal's hotspot for spider lovin.' On our trip up to Mount Diablo State Park in Contra Costa, we spotted a few tarantulas crossing the road. Every year around September and October, Mount Diablo becomes a love nest for tarantulas looking for that special mate. The best place to see one is near a female tarantula’s den. You will know you've found one because it'll be covered with webbing. They may be large spiders, but tarantulas are not poisonous to humans. The number of people killed by tarantulas, to date, is zero.
There was a big patch of snow-on-the mountain wildflowers that attracted an amazing number of pollinators, including this Tarantula-hawk wasp, Entypus unifasciatus ssp. unifasciatus. This is another new species for my prairie bee and wasp species set.
Some species info: bugguide.net/node/view/6803
How interesting to know that tarantulas are not naturally very aggressive and they are rarely lethal. Like any other animals, they will defend themselves once cornered.
Just in case you decided to keep Chilean rose tarantula as a pet, here is a very insightful link to read: www.thesprucepets.com/pet-chilean-rose-tarantulas-1237348
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Santa Rosa Plateau Ca. The tarantulas migrate by the thousands at the end of summer. This even creeped me out a little as the sun was going down and the dirt road was full of these things 😳
Uncle Rico, our pet Mexican Red-knee Tarantula has gotten so big that this is all that I can fit in the frame when using my macro lens.
There was a convention of these on the Desert Milkweed - counted 20. The females have the curled antennae. Backyard, Casa Grande, AZ. May 2020
While I was deciding the name for this, I started thinking about how the earth is curved and I was reminded of the Flat Earth Society. For anyone unfamiliar with this whole thing, there is a group of people who seriously believe not just that the earth is flat, but that there's an international conspiracy involving governments, media, the scientific establishment, educational institutions and airlines to fool us into believing the earth is a sphere. Despite over 2000 years of scientific consensus on the matter, not to mention countless sources of physical evidence and scientific measurements, flat earth societies began to form around the mid-twentieth century. The internet era has seen a resurgence of these beliefs, with platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter making it easy for individuals to spread disinformation and attract others to their ideas.
I find it staggering that people in the 21st century can be so scientifically uneducated and so easily persuaded. One might argue that it's all harmless, but the flat earthers claimed their first victim in February 2020 when Mike Hughes, an American limousine driver, daredevil and professed flat-earther, plunged to his death from several hundred feet while piloting his self-built steam-powered rocket. It was to be his last of several attempts to prove the earth was flat, but it went tragically wrong when the return parachute deployed prematurely and separated from the rocket. Utter madness!
Well I have digressed a little 😀
This is, of course, the Lady Chapel at York Minster. The Minster is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. After several centuries of building, it was completed and consecrated in 1472. The east end of the cathedral, including the Lady Chapel, was built between 1361 and 1405 in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
This is a tarantula hawk wasp. (Warning: it gets gross from here) Called a tarantula hawk because it will sting and paralyze a tarantula and then drag the tarantula back to its special burrow. It then lays a single egg in the tarantula's abdomen. When the egg hatches the larva eats the paralyzed tarantula alive, avoiding critical organs until the last. Creepy!
One week ago I posted the overall field for the Tarantula nebula.
I noticed, later on, that the data were nicely dithered and they would have fit for drizzling.
So here it goes a 2x drizzled reprocessing, cropped around the nebula.
It's worth to have a look at full size here on my site:
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Takahashi FS60c
ASI1600MM Pro
7 Position FW, 36mm
Feather Touch Starlight
Pegasus Astro
EQ6
Astronomik Ha 6nm: 140 ∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1
Astronomik Ha 6nm: 10 ∙ 600s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1
Astronomik S2 6nm: 86∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1
Astronomik O3 6nm: 96 ∙ 420s (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 1x1
Total exposure: ~39 hours
Location:
Colombari's Terrace, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The giant and bright Tarantula Nebula in the galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. This was one night's worth of phtographing with a Celestron RASA 8 telescope, QHY268M mono cooled camera, Astronomik filters (luminance, red, green blue and 6nm hydrogen alpha), Celestron CGEM2 EQ mount, PHD2 guiding, NINA control software. This region has a lot of hydrogen alpha emissions, so I used the Ha filter for most of the luminance data here. A lot of stars there! Processed in APP and PS.
When mature, male Arizona Blonde Tarantulas are easily recognized by their enlarged pedipalps and slender abdomens compared to females. These males spend up to eight years growing and developing before leaving their burrows to embark on a wide-ranging search for a mate. During this perilous journey, they often eat very little or not at all. Their entire mission is clear: find a mate or perish. Females, in contrast, can live over twenty years, while males usually survive only a few months after reaching maturity. This short but intense period of risk and determination makes their journey both fascinating and heroic.
He’s all legs and love, no dinner plate,
A true arachnid with a perilous fate.
He’s all legs and love, no dinner plate,
A bold little suitor with death on his slate.
Tarantula Hawk Wasp, Historic Canoa Ranch Pond, Green Valley Arizona
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Tarantula Hawk - Peru
Something a little different today. This very colorful little insect was flying around some flowers on our hotel grounds. A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp that preys on tarantulas.
Part of
The Large Magellanic Cloud
A Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
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Image exposure: 75 minutes.
Image size: 2.12 º x 1.41º.
Image date: 2022-09-25
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Processed by Paul C Swift.
Combined amateur data:
Close Data acquired by Allan Pal & Wide field by Data by Stewart Wilson
One more southern gem! Thanks for viewing!
Tarantula Nebula with an experimental hybrid palette with some narrow band included. It is based on Allan's data acquired in Australia with his 8" f6 Newt
You can see more of Alan's work here
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Acabados los grandes bichos de los que su picadura es bastante letal, aqui tenemos otro poblados de esta zona que no se queda atras en sus picaduras, es la famosa Tarántula, con la que resulta tambien tener el mínimo contacto, es manos visible, pero no por ello menos dañina.
OMG!! This Tarantula was huge!! You couldn't see it until you used your camera flash!! It was hiding in a very dark cave!!
I wished on a shooting star that I could walk arm and arm with a beautiful Blond. But not a blond with seven arms!!!
I found him hunkered down near my bird feeders. So I put my hand near him and he crawled up my arm and I thought to myself, "don't play with the wildlife."
Tarantulas are not aggressive and rarely bite. Their bite is similar to a bee sting. More dangerous are the hairs on his ventrum that he can send to your skin and cause severe itching. Those hairs in a predator's eye can be very serious.